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Tag Archives: Skepticism
What to do with those pesky religious skeptics
In which I provide my two cents regarding the current discussion between PZ Myers, Pamela Gay, and others.
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Everything you know is sort of wrong
Today is the big day!
And not merely because it is TGIF* day.
What if “Boob Quake” had been …
“Dick Shake”
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Boobquake: Valid science communication event or just a bunch of boobs … quaking?
This is a somewhat stream of consciousness response to an interview of Michael McRae by Tokenskeptic followed by an interview with Desiree Schell of Skeptically Speaking.
Please go listen to the podcast, it is quite good.
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Do you find naked men wearing chains sexy?
Well, OK, technically if a man is wearing chains he’s not really naked. Whatever. The question at hand is, was sex in skepticism before women showed up? And, when they showed up with their bobbies and all, did they ruin it for everyone?
If you don’t understand that there is message in the medium, then you may not be helping
Notice that I didn’t say that the medium IS the message. Just that some of the message is in there. In the medium.
I am forever amazed at how easily compelled my fellow skeptics, and/or my fellow atheists, and/or my fellow feminists, and/or my fellow anti-racists are to tell each other that they are doing it wrong. It was once said (by a straight white male Christian, probably), that “If half the people who make speeches would make concrete floors, they would be doing more good.”
Reminder: Skepchicon in Minneapolis in July
The venue, Minneapolis, is well chosen as it is very hard to get an earthquake going on this nice stable bit of crust.
I know it is a bit early, but I’ll remind you of this now and then … as you are making your plans for the summer, consider attending the Skepchicon track at the Convergence thingie in Minneapolis this July.
There will be many other things going on a Convergence. It’s one of those fantasy/sci fi conventions where you wear the Star Wars suit. Well, you don’t have to wear the suit if you don’t want to. And the Skepchicks have a series of things going on:
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What is skepticism?
There are two things I’ve learned over the last year.
1) If you get a room full of self-described skeptics, gathered to converse skeptically about something, a minor tweaking of the conversation can cause an alarmingly large percentage of said “skeptics” to start spewing utter nonsense; and
2) Manyself-described skeptics seem to believe (yes, believe) that nothing can be believed, and assert that the ONLY thing that EVER matters is “the” truth, and at the same time insist that “the truth” can never be trusted (unless they themselves have uttered it). Such an approach can cause said skeptic to wield a skeptical hammer that is so big it obscures their vision to the determent of their intended goal. That a significant subset of these “skeptics” are sociopathic and terribly annoying is unfortunate.
Don Prothero is a Skeptic
Hat tip: Monicks
Are the Skepchicks too sexy? (UPDATED)
Dear Slymepit. Go fuck yourself.
The perfect Christmas gift: Telekineses machine!
Calling all skeptics … So, what’s the story with this thing?
They seem to be saying it uses Beta Waves. Remember Beta Waves? I wonder if these are a new kind of Beta Waves, or are they the Beta Waves that run my Ouija board?
Here’s another video:
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The podcast is available.
In case you are interested, the conversation with Desiree Schell, Omar Mouallem, and me talking about “Getting Noticed” on Skeptically Speaking is in podcast form. Here.
Don’t forget to tune in tonight!
Omar Mouallem, Desiree Schell and Greg Laden (that’s me) had a very interesting conversation Wednesday night about how skepticism gets noticed. Through comedy, music, blogging, scientific studies, and other outlets, how do we bring people on board? We decided blogging was irrelevant but that music was cool, we came down divided on what some call “attention grabbing stunts” like blasphemy day and killing crackers. And we are going to finish our conversation tonight, on Skeptically Speaking Episode 29.
Be there or be pie! (And we all know pie are square).
Global warming and the Minnesota Moose. Part IIa
This is a continuation of a discussion on the role of Global Warming in the decline of moose populations in Minnesota. It is also a discussion of Global Warming denialism.
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